The Equal Rights Amendment could protect reproductive rights and provide the foundation for a more equitable future for all Imagine if there were constitutional amendment that would protect reproductive rights — while also protecting LGBTQ rights and equality for all. It does exist. It’s the Equal Rights Amendment and it…

Every March, we bemoan the lack of representation of women in our textbooks, statues, science, and literary canon while celebrating a few token great ladies. Denied context, these women stand out like mad women in ballgowns in the wilderness — interesting more as an anomaly but hardly representative. …

In 2019 was honored to deliver the keynote speech at the Wisconsin Romance Writers conference and New Jersey Romance Writers Conference. This is that speech. You can listen to the speech here: https://soundcloud.com/user-152218203/why-romance-matters-by-maya-rodale This morning I’m going to talk about why romance novels matter. I’m going to talk about history…

True story: I started reading romance novels in college at my mother’s insistence. I was pursuing an English degree with a focus on women as authors and characters when my mother (rightly) insisted that I could not legitimately get such a degree without reading the most popular and profitable books…

As a woman, author and card-carrying member of Romancelandia, I was disappointed but not surprised when news broke this week that women’s representation in film “climbed” to a “historical high” of a mere/whopping 29% of top grossing films in 2016. I had the same reaction upon learning that the New…

The first thing I ever learned to cook, as soon as I was tall enough to reach the stove, was a can of soup. Campbell’s chicken and stars, to be exact. I remember being desperate to learn to cook as a kid and nagging to be taught. As a picky…

When I mention that I write romance novels at cocktail parties, one of the most frequent responses from men and women alike is “Oh, like the Fabio books?” When The New Yorker wrote about HarperCollins’s recent acquisition of Harlequin to the tune of $450 million, a significant portion of the…